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pagan

See also gentile, nation

ཕྱི་​པ།

[lit. outsider]

Biblical: used of those outside the Christian or Jewish faith: དེ་​ཐམས་​ཅད་​ཕྱི་​པས་​འཚོལ། the pagans seek these things (Mt. 6:32), ཁྱེད་​ཚོ་​ཕྱི་​པ་​ཡིན་​པའི་​དུས་​སུ། when you were pagans (1 Cor. 12:2).

Buddhist: ཕྱི་​པ། or ཕྱི་​རོལ་​པ། one who is not a Bst. (AMD, TRI 174).